PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 15

PERSONAL

Mr? J. Lorimer, North Egmont moun* tain house, will return home to-day after three weeks in hospital. c Mr. W. A. lorns, chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, will visit New Plymouth on Friday. The death occurred at Dunedin yesterday of a former district telegraph engi». ncer, Mr. R. D. Veitch, aged 61. He was a brother of the Hon. W. A. Veitch, Minister of Labour, reports the Press Association. Mr. Walter Wilson, Hastings, Mr. Ar-, mitage, Hawke’s Bay, Miss Al. B. Brown, Dannevirke, Dr. and Airs. Miller, Sumner, and Mr. Cooke, Wellington, aro among the guests at North Egmont. A Marton message reports the death of Mr.- Alexander G. Simpson,' chairman of Rangitikei County Council,' and pro-. minently identified with numerous local bodies. ’ He was 65 years of age and was a son of the late Hon. R. K. Simpson, and was at one time one of the fore-, most heavy athletes in the Dominion,

At tho ratepayers’ meeting held in connection with the proposal to raise aX 'additional loan of £20,000 for the completion of the Opunake harbour, Mr. T< P. Hughson referred to the active part taken ’by the late Air. Alcßeynolds in connection with the initiation of ths harbour scheme, he having also been th® board’s first chairman. It was through Air. Alcßeynolds that the speaker had been associated with the board. Ths late Air. Brennan had also taken an active part and their loss to the district was to be regretted.

Airs.-Emily Tyas Wade, whose death occurred in Wellingto” on Thursday lastj was u member of r au old Taranaki fam*, ily. A daughter of the late Mr. Georg® Gorney, a well-known cabinet-maker inNew Plymouth, she married. Mr. A, Wade, then also in business in NeW Plymouth. Subsequently Air. and Mrs. Wade removed to Waverley and from there to Wellington, where they have resided for some years. Though Airs.Wade had been in ill-health for a long time her death came with unexpected suddenness.

Mr. James Stuckey, who died recently at Wrington, Somersetshire, England, arrived in New Zealand in 1870, taking up land at Mount Hutt, Canterbury. H« came to the North Island about 1877, and took up the Te. Rangitumau block of bush, eight miles north of Masterton, He remained there till 1907, when ha went to England, where he resided to the time of his death. The late Mr. Stuckey was one of the earliest New Zealand breeders of Hereford cattle and founder of the New Zealand Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association. It was possibly the most successful Hereford . breeder in the Southern Hemisphere of his time. He was also one of the earliest and most successful breeders of •_ Southdown sheep in the North Island, founding the Te Rangitumau flock about ISSG. Mr. Stuckey was for many-yeart, , a member of the North Wairarapa - County Council and the Masterton Road Board. He was a keen judge of stock, especially Hereford and Jersey Lincoln and Southdown sheep, Clydesdale horses and Berkshire pigs, studs oJ each of which breeds were earned on at Te Rangitumau. Three sons and one daughter (all married) are resident 11 New Zealand, and six daughters (four -01 whom are married) live in England Mrs Stuckey resides at Wrington with hel J two single daughters. ,